WHARR is the Women’s Health and Reproductive Rights working group of #GetOrganizedBK.

We are Brooklyn residents working to promote gender equity, women's health, and reproductive rights. We take action for positive change and fight against anti-choice and other regressive policies that harm women’s health, producefact sheetson current issues and legislation, share stories about how those issues impact women’s lives, and hold events to share our work with the community.

HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE BATTLEFRONT

What’s next? join our JANUARY general meeting!

Join WHARR for our first meeting of 2019!

We’re starting the new year off strong by meeting with elected officials at both the federal and state level. We’ll share updates from these conversations, plan for other upcoming lobby meetings, and discuss actions to highlight critical state legislation.

NY State has a dangerously outdated abortion law, which was written in 1970—three years before Roe v. Wade. To this day, abortion is in the criminal code and state law fails to provide exceptions for circumstances when a woman’s health is at risk or when the fetus is not viable.

We must pressure our newly Democratic state legislature to fix New York’s abortion law and pass the Reproductive Health Act!

Just some of what's at stake: In NYC, there are over a dozen Crisis Pregnancy Centers misleading pregnant people about their health care options. In NY State, abortion remains in the criminal code. Black women in NY State are nearly 4x more likely to die during pregnancy and childbirth than white women—and in NYC, 12x more likely. And thousands of women and girls in the United States do not have adequate access to menstrual products.